458 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [May, 



ed the proposal of the Earl of Munster on the part of the Roy. As. Soc. to complete 

 the English translation of the Persian DabistAn of which the late Captain Shea 

 had done ahout one third when he died. Major Troyer had translated the whole 

 into German whilst in Calcutta ; he will be occupied on the English version and the 

 editing of the whole, next year. 



M. Burnouf Sec. Paris Asiatic Society announced the receipt of the 

 Society's Journal of June containing the pillar alphabet, and the sensation 

 it had created among the learned : 



" Le jour ou je l'ai recu j'allais a l'academie ; quoique ce savant corps ne pr£te 

 son attention en ce moment qu' au Grec et a. l'Arabe, j'ai demand^ la parole, et j'ai 

 trouve" de la \erve pour exposer tout ce que vous veniez de faire, de beau et de grand 

 par votre decouverte. J'ai ete" ecoute" avec une religieuse attention, et je sais que 



la communication a fait quelque effet Chose singuli&re! j' avais deja 



fait des essais infructueux sur la copie du VII vol. des As. Res. : j' avais huit 

 letties, mais m' etant trompe" lourdement sur U et ne sachant que faire de J_ 



je n' avais pu passer ontre .... Votre J_ est un veritable trait de vive lumiere 

 qui a rendu a ce caract&re le m£me service que le n des inscriptions cuneiforraes 

 trouve par Rask. J'ai communique" votre lettre a M. Jacquet que venait, peu de 

 jours avant, de recevoir une masse d' insci'iptions de Girnar exactement dans le 

 caract&re que vous avez dechiffre si heureusement. II s'est mis avec empressement, 

 et il vous ecrira lui lneme." 



Some correspondence with the Secretary of the Geological Society of 

 London was read, relating to a missing No. of their Transactions. 



Read a letter from M. G. Vrolik, Secretary to the Royal Institution 

 of Sciences and Arts at Amsterdam, proposing an interchange of publica- 

 tions and presenting its transactions as far as published. Resolved, that 

 a suitable return be made of such vols, of the Researches as remain in 

 store, (from vol. 12 to vol. 20.) 



Mr. J. Minchin, Secretary Madras Literary Society, and Professor 

 Daniell, Sec. Roy. Institution of London, acknowledged presentations. 



Library. 



The following books were presented : 



The Sankhya Karika, 1 vol. 4 to. — by the Boy. As. Soc. Or. Trans. Com- 

 mittee. 



List of the Members of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 corrected to the 31st of July, 1837 — by ditto, 



Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks, £crite en Arabe par Makrizi, et traduite en 

 Fran9ais por M. Quatreme're, Tom. I. 4to. — by the same. 



Institutiones Linguae Pracriticse, by Dr. Christian Lassen, Professor at 

 Bonn, the 3rd fasciculus — by the author. 



Nieuwe Verhandelingen der Eerste Klasse van bet koniklijk, Niderlandsche 

 Institut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en schoone kunsten (Parts I. II. III. 

 IV. V.) Amsterdam, 1827 — 1836 — by the Amsterdam Royal Institute. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. II. Part I., London, 

 1836 and Journal, — by the Society. 



The following by the Statistical Society of London. 



Tables of the Revenue, Population, Commerce, &c. of the United Kingdom 

 and its Dependencies, Parts III. IV. V. each with a Supplement, folio, London. 

 3 834—37. 



Catalogue of Parliamentary Reports, 1696 —1834, ordered by the House of 

 Commons to be printed, 15th August, 1834. 



Report, Vaccine Board, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 

 28th August, 1833. 



General Statistics of the British Empire, by James M' Queen, Esq. London, 

 1836. 



Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge, for October, November 

 and December, 1837, London. 



